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I just beat Portal. Spoiler Warning, don’t click.

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Transformers

A follow up to the voicey thing, take any picture from the interwebs, it finds a face and then slaps it on a random transformer body. Kinda nuts.

Send a personalized message to your friends from Optimus Prime!

This is awesome. I think I sent it to everyone I could…

Edit: also, dude at work said if I posted this in my blog, I’m fired. Packin’ my stuff.

This has in its turn suggested a new use for the well known Nipponese powered exoskeleton suit technology, already touted as a nifty alternative to the traditional Zimmer frame.

AFP scribe Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura asks today: “As Japan greys, who will look after the elderly? Maybe one day their aging children - in robot suits…”

It seems that the Kanagawa Institute of Technology showed off their astounding, pneumatic “Wearable Power Assist Suit” last week at a trade fair, along with other motorised-geriatric manufacturers.

American researchers may have revolutionized the field of artificial limbs by adopting a new power source formerly used mainly in torpedoes and rockets.

Exploration, Vanderbilt’s Online Science Journal - New prosthetic arm is powered by miniature rocket motor

Cool as hell! I don’t wanna say I want to have to get a prosthetic arm, but if I did, I sure as hell would want one that spurts and hisses hot steam.